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From Publishers Weekly
Boyle's latest concerns two couples in Southern California?one a pair of wealthy suburbanites, the other illegal immigrants from Mexico. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"A compelling story of myopic misunderstanding and mutual tragedy."--Chicago Tribune"Succeeds in stealing the front page news and bringing it home to the great American tradition of the social novel . . . A book to appreciate as we peer at the faces of strangers outside our windows, and wall ourselves in."--The Boston Globe "Lays on the line of our national cult of hypocrisy. Comically and painfully he details the smug wastefulness of the haves and the vile misery of the have-nots."--Barbara Kingsolver, The Nation
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Product details
Series: Penguin Books with Reading Guides
Paperback: 355 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (September 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780140238280
ISBN-13: 978-0140238280
ASIN: 014023828X
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.6 x 7.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
638 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#15,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Funny thing, being human. I think The Tortilla Curtain is a book that can make you think. I enjoyed it. I was just in L.A. and passed through the areas written about in this book so I found the story very interesting and engaging. If you tend to not understand irony, or only take a book at face value, you might not like this book-it can be depressing. If you enjoy irony and find people amazingly dumb at times and recognize the futility of things at times, you might like this book. I read reviews regarding this story where people didn't like any of the characters. I did. I could see people I know and stories I have heard about people in the pages and descriptions of this book, I just found it to be thick with irony, almost funny, but not quite. It's more serious than funny.It's a hard book to describe, though I would recommend spending a few hours with it. The main characters are a Mexican couple, in L.A. illegally, trying to scrape by and maybe someday buy a nice house and have good jobs, but they rarely get a break. There is also a white, upper middle class family that lives in Topanga Canyon who moved there to enjoy the country and the mountains. The husband, Delaney, is a nature writer and his wife, Krya, a realtor. While the Mexicans barely scrape by and live camped along side a waterway, the white couple become concerned with growing crime and the coyotes and other creatures that live in the area. The homeowners assoc. wants to put in a wall to keep out intruders and wild creatures. The liberal nature writer is against the wall and also believes that everyone deserves a chance in this world, no matter who. Except, he has a growing hatred for a Mexican that he accidentally hit with his car. He begins to really hate that guy...It's a fine line in humanity between making it and just having a meal to keep you going. It's also amazing how some people live, rich or poor. It's all life and that's what this book is about. There are no great answers to any problems here. This book is just an examination, albeit, exaggerated, but a story about our civilization and times, and I believe it can make one think and appreciate small luxuries and maybe make one ponder the bigger issues.This is my first T.C. Doyle book and I'll have to check out his other work. I read this book in a few hours and I thought it was very well done.
I really don’t know where to begin. This is a life-changing book – a story that will put you in the shoes of people we see everyday – but don’t really see. The book follows two parallel stories – one of a poor, illegal immigrant couple who have landed in Southern California in desperate search for a better life. The other is that of a comfortable, white couple thriving in the suburbs. What is most interesting as these stories unfold is the disparity between what each couple worries about and struggle with on a daily basis.For the immigrant couple the daily worry is in finding safe shelter, food, employment; security of any kind and survival on the most basic level. The suburban couple worries about getting a bigger commission, what material to use for their kitchen counters, saving the environment and where they should eat out for dinner – the pressures do not revolve around survival, but rather around maintaining – and expanding – their level of comfort and luxury.This is a tale of our times.The story is not told in a manner that condemns the suburbanites – but, instead, demonstrates that this is who they are, how they have been raised culturally – they are a product of our mad dash to the security of a white-picket fence in the suburbs – the result of isolation, cut off from the real suffering of others, making these things seem less real, less human.One must ask – why do we worry more about stray animals and trees than the suffering of people in our own nations and around the world? Is it because we have cut ourselves off from their need – because it is too painful to witness and we feel too helpless in changing their circumstances? Or are we so safe in our hermetically sealed communities that we forget that others are not doing so well.Immigration is not a new challenge to our nation. We have never, truly done a good job of assimilating new arrivals – they have often been discriminated against and discouraged by any means from thriving. We all fear, this is not new, that our nation cannot possibly hold another soul – or that this new group will work for less and take our jobs. The irony is, that our jobs are being sent overseas – much of the work done by immigrants is work we feel is beneath us – menial.  But, honestly, that is neither here nor there.Our failure, on so many levels, is in not recognizing every one of these people as just that – people. They are fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers – doing everything they can to survive. Many of us, if we go back a couple generations, have a plumber, farmer, factory worker or mechanic in our family tree. Go back a couple more and new probably have some newly arrived immigrants – lost in a new world trying to make a better life.Do we know where we come from? Do we know what our ancestors experienced – the discrimination and struggle – that has resulted in our comfortable lives? They wanted a better life – the question is – do we know when we have arrived (gotten what we came for), or is it always a pursuit for more?Reading this book made me uncomfortable. It made me feel ashamed for the dissatisfaction I have felt for my car, my TV or my cell phone – I realized how much I have to be grateful for and that my comfort should be utilized to help others – not create ever more luxurious comforts.The Tortilla Curtain reminded me a great deal of Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko,  Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Food, Inc and Lone Star, all of which do a tremendous job of portraying the plight of Mexican Immigrants as they struggle to enter our country and earn a living. I don't know that I am an advocate for illegal immigration, but I certainly feel for them in their struggle. This is a great challenge - one that our nation needs to face sooner rather than later.
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